I realize this may blow up in my face several hours from now, but I wanted to get on the record that Las Vegas Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels (and Dave Ziegler, the former Patriot front office member and current GM of the Raiders, who works in lockstep with the coach) seems to, once again, not understand…to put this delicately…how football teams work.
The duo spent the offseason moving from Derek Carr to Jimmy Garoppolo, whom they are familiar with. They also brought in slot receiver Jakobi Meyers, whom they are familiar with. In a vacuum there is nothing wrong with Jimmy G, who can indeed be outstanding in the correct system, or with Meyers, who can be a nice reliable slot contributor.